As organization’s success depends largely on its ability to understand and adapt to change. In the health and development sector, this includes growing donor expectations, increasing demands for individualized service, expanding workloads and continued resource constraints. Successful African institutions understand the importance of using Organizational Learning (OL) to advance and develop.

Focus: Course topics will include the OL cycle, innovation and idea management, human resource planning, change management, and institutional capacity building. Participatory learning approaches such as group work, case studies, and plenary discussion sessions will be used.

17– 21 September 2011

This one-week course focuses on turning individual knowledge into organizational knowledge and how to create systems for learning and problem solving.This course is designed for personnel working in health and development institutions as well as donor agencies and civil society organizations.

Many African institutions frequently suffer from staff turnover, lack of institutional memory, loss of hard and electronic documents, and poor knowledge application. Successful health and development institutions understand the importance of harnessing Knowledge Management (KM) to improve their programs, services, and increase organizational sustainability.

The course will cover the fundamentals of KM as well as the steps individuals and teams may take to design and implement a KM strategy. Course topics will include conducting knowledge assessments, knowledge generation, electronic document management, Web 2.0, communities of practice, and knowledge protection. Participatory learning approaches such as group work, case studies, and plenary discussion sessions will be used.

By the end of the course participants will be able to:
• Design and implement a resource mobilization strategy
• Research and collaboration with donors and partner agencies more effectively
• Design and write winning project proposals;
• Develop project monitoring and evaluation plans;
• Budget projects and programmes;
• Transform an idea into a proposal using the logical framework approach.

19 - 23 September 2011

This course is designed for personnel working in health and development institutions as well as donor agencies and civil society organizations.

This course has been designed to reinforce the capacity of health managers and planners in managing integrated RH/FP services and implementing effective HIV&AIDS programmes. It is designed to explore the different aspects of integration and examine key management systems that may need to be adapted to effectively deliver services in an integrated setting, and provides guidelines for assessing integration at several different organizational levels.

Abuja (Nigeria): 5-11 June 2011
Nairobi (Kenya): 19-30 September 2011

This course applies to Health managers and planners working within Reproductive health/ Financial planning services.

Nairobi, Kenya

The increasingly fast moving and competitive environment we face in the 21st century demands greater leadership and management from people in order to make organizations prosper. Various factors inside and outside the organization affect performance and contribute to an organisation’s results. Throughout Africa, dynamic leaders and managers of RH and HIV/AIDS programmes are seeking practical assistance in leading and managing their organizations and programmes. The reality of the HIV/AIDS epidemic requires that RH and HIV/AIDS programmes are well designed and managed in order to achieve desired results.

This two-week course provides state-of-the art guidance to Reproductive Health and HIV&AIDS Program Leaders and Managers who are dedicated to achieving organization and program success through modern leadership and management techniques.

4 - 15 October 2010

This course is designed for senior programme managers and chief executives of governments and NGOs involved in Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and related health sectors. District, national or regional RH and HIV/AIDS senior programme managers working with Ministries of Health, national or international non-governmental organisations are excellent candidates for this course.

Nairobi, Kenya

Policies are a reflection of a society’s commitment to its people and advocacy is a requisite tool for Reproductive Health and HIV&AIDS programme managers and service providers throughout the continent. As competition for scarce resources increases, advocacy skills become important tools in influencing the decision-making process regarding resource allocation. Effective advocacy ensures that programmes are enacted, funded, implemented, and sustained by building support with the public and opinion leaders. Through education and example, advocates can change the environment within which programmes can be successful.

Course focus:

• Identifying problems, policy issues and solutions
• Setting advocacy goals and objectives
• Identifying and researching audiences
• Developing and delivering advocacy messages
• Using data to advocate for health policy development and planning
• Formal and informal decision-making processes
• Building alliances, networks and coalitions
• Self-development skills
• Effective presentations
• Resources mobilisation
• Monitoring and evaluating advocacy efforts

1 - 5 August 2011

This course targets programme managers and staff of government departments, NGOs, civil society and private sector who wish to influence policies in their agencies and/or communities, professionals in institutions, associations and networks involved in advocacy, researchers interested in promoting the utilization of their findings, trainers and lecturers who work with advocates.

Nairobi, Kenya

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) seeks to determine if health and development programs are on track and if they are making a difference. The one-week course will cover the fundamentals of monitoring and evaluation as related to HIV&AIDS and reproductive health programming.

Focus:
• cover the fundamentals of monitoring and evaluation as related to HIV&AIDS and reproductive health programming reproductive health programming

Topics include including M&E design, problem tree analysis, objective creation, logical frameworks, indicators, basics of qualitative and quantitative research, and data collection tools. The course will incorporate participatory learning approaches such as group work, case studies, and plenary discussion sessions.

11 - 15 July 2011

Nairobi, Kenya

Course focus:
• The course covers M&E practices beyond the fundamentals.
• Including M&E systems design, tool creation, practical qualitative research, and impact measurement.
• The course seeks to link M&E with learning and policy change so that leaders and managers can effectively link M&E to program improvement.

Benefits: The course will incorporate participatory learning approaches such as group work, case studies, and plenary discussion sessions.

18 - 22 July 2011

This course is designed for programme officers and managers working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and health education in various sectors including ministries of health, HIV/AIDS NGOs, reproductive health organisations, civil society and for-profit organisations. Programme Officers working for multi- and bi-lateral organisations that are responsible for providing technical assistance to national organisations or projects will also benefit from this course.

Tel: +254 (0)20 444 86 18
Fax: +254 (0)20 444 86 21
Email: courses@cafs.org
Internet: http://www.cafs.org/courses/8

Nairobi, Kenya

Gender-based violence is a pervasive public health and human rights issue throughout the world. While international declarations and frameworks with recommendations on how to deal with perpetrators of gender-based violence exist, they are, by themselves, not adequate to change people’s attitudes and practices, which in many communities are reinforced by gender norms and power relations.

The consequences of gender-based violence are a major obstacle to reducing poverty, achieving gender equality and meeting the Millennium Development Goals. International conferences and conventions including the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) have made various recommendations including legislation to address gender-based violence. Prevention and response interventions to gender-based violence should adhere to internationally agreed guiding principles, and programmes should incorporate the minimum recommended response services.

Programme managers and health care service must have the technical capacity to engage communities to examine and challenge cultural values and norms without creating misunderstanding, unnecessary tensions and antagonism. This two-week course provides practical skills in designing and implementing interagency and multi sectoral programmes and interventions to respond to gender-based violence in the community and especially among populations affected by armed conflict.

12 April – 23 April 2010

This course is suitable for programme managers/coordinators and health care providers responsible for developing and implementing interventions to address gender-based violence in different contexts. They will include staff from humanitarian organizations, health institutions, civil society organizations, development partners and technical assistance agencies.

Applicants are advised to seek financial assistance from bilateral and multilateral agencies and organisations operating in their own countries such as USAID, CIDA, UNFPA, FAO and GTZ. Participants are advised to ensure that payments are made by the sponsoring agency before the training programme begins.

Applicants should complete a course application form in detail and mail to: The Director Centre for African Family Studies CAFS Centre, Mara Road Upper Hill P.O. Box 60054 00200, Nairobi, Kenya or fax to:
Fax: +254 (0)20 273 14 89 or mail to:
Email: courses@cafs.org
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